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“ONE WHO fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. Fear blocks every avenue of business – it makes man afraid of competition, of changing his methods, of doing anything which might change his condition.”Henry Ford

Acknowledge emotions – they permeate every business.

See emotions as a caution sign rather than a call to action.

Deconstruct the situation, reappraise it: “What does it mean, how did I decide that, and what else could it mean?”

Reframe it: “Anything less than totally perfect offers the possibility of learning from mistakes.”“How is this an opportunity for developing resiliency, flexibility and a sense of humor?”

“OUR STUDY shows that when in a positive mood, our visual cortex takes in more information, while negative moods result in tunnel vision. The up side of this (positive moods) is that we can see things from a more global, or integrative perspective.”Taylor Schmitz, University of Toronto Study ‘People Who Wear Rose Coloured Glasses See More,’ 2009

Last week during a sales workshop on influencing motivation, the importance of beliefs came up. As it usually does. Because beliefs play a major role in how we perceive and make mental maps of our experience.

The cliché ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ should actually be reversed! ‘You’ll see it when you believe it!’

Synchronicity being what it is, Fast Company (a favorite business magazine) sent out a fast fact link on the same subject, same day. I shared it with the workshop participants and thought you might enjoy it too.
The Seeing/Believing Gap | by Marcia L. Conner
What you see may be only a fraction of what’s there. To
learn more, look beyond what you expect.http://trax.fastcompany.com/k/w/mailman/fasttake/20071010/seebelieve

On a similar note, here’s a quote attributed to Buddha on the subject of judgmental thinking: “There is nothing to judge because perception can only see illusion. Perception is always partial and limited to arbitrary context.”